Steve Wittich

By Steve Wittich and Patrick Stephan Before we get to the session, one quick note on an award given today! Team McLaren won the Jigger Award. This is a hard luck award – and not exactly one you want to win. McClaren was not here to accept. The presenter (AARWBA – American Auto Racing Writers...

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INDYCAR partners with Red Bull Advanced Technologies to push driver safety forward with the next generation of cockpit protection By Steve Wittich For over a century the Indianapolis Motor Speedway has led the way in safety innovations in racing. From today’s announcement about the next evolution in driver cockpit protection, through the I-PAS goggles...

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This didn’t ship for some reason when sent at 11:30 pm last night! Retrying! By Patrick Stephan Yes, I was actually at the track almost all day. Ok, not as long as Steve, but still since like 10:00am until 7pm. And yes, this is still my first real update. It’s just been one of those...

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Indianapolis, Indiana (May 23, 2019) – Juncos Racing is pleased to announce their partnership with Club Atletico River Plate for the 103rd Running of the Indy 500 presented by Gainbridge. The No. 32 NTT IndyCar Series Chevrolet entry with carry the Club Atletico River Plate at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Club Atletico River Plate is...

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Buddy Rice Still Active at IMS 15 Years after his Greatest Win; He remembers many things in 2004, but works in 2019 SPEEDWAY, Ind. (May 23, 2019) – For 2004 Indy 500 champion Buddy Rice, the memories are still vivid 15 years after the greatest day of his racing career. But the personable Phoenix, Ariz., […]

Note from Steve: Once again, we welcome Butch Welsch to TSO. Butch is our favorite guest writer during the “Month of May,” and his yearly previews are a must read. Butch has been to every Indianapolis 500 since 1948 – this year will be his 72nd in a row.. He has been sitting in the […]

Indianapolis, Indiana (May 22, 2019) – Juncos Racing announced today 250ok, an Indianapolis- based email intelligence platform, would be the primary sponsor for Kyle Kaiser’s No. 32 Chevrolet entry for the 103rd Running of the Indy 500 presented by Gainbridge. Team owner Ricardo Juncos said, “We are thrilled to announce a highly innovative company like […]

TSO would like to welcome J.R. Hildebrand as our guest blogger for the “Month of May.” The eight-time Indianapolis 500 starter is back with Dreyer & Reinbold Racing for a second year with software as a service provider Salesforce.com returning to sponsor the Sausalito, Calif. native. We’re looking forward to Hildebrand’s insight on what goes […]

For the first time in six days of track activity, speeds were mostly meaningless. Finding out how your car handles in various situations, along with saving tire and fuel became the focus. And, more specifically, who can pass when behind more than two or three cars. Early on, Andretti Autosport teammates Rossi and Daly looked...

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That report was made public Monday afternoon, and it’s loaded with an absence of surprises, although there are a few bits of weirdness involved. Rather than submit what KPMG said would be an ideal computer-aided design plan for the proposed F1 track that would identify all mandatory components required following FIA (the governing body of […]

In October last year the city released a request for proposals seeking “an open-wheel auto racing format” to run the annual Grand Prix event. From the start it was only a two-horse race between Michaelian and Pook. Pook, of course, was hardly a carpetbagger. He founded the Long Beach Grand Prix in 1975 and brought […]

Everybody was excited, but I take a lot of personal interest in IndyCar. I always have. I kind of grew up in IndyCar, so I was glad that we were able to get them back. The fans themselves, for only having a little bit less than 90 days to sell the race last year, we […]

Over the past 20-something years writing about racing, I’ve encountered three people from whom I learn something about the art of racecar driving every time we speak for longer than five minutes. One of that trio is Rick Ravon Mears, born this day 65 years ago in Wichita, Kansas, and brought up in Bakersfield, Calif. […]

Tonya Bergeson-Dana talks with her son, Conor, about his father when he brings it up, which is often. If he’s asking the questions, she reasons, he’s ready to hear the answers. Paul Conor Dana, at age 9, knows that his father was Paul Dana, a journalist and IndyCar driver who died in March 2006 during […]